Example sentences of "at the [adj] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She returned his kiss , but declined firmly to join him at the Allied Steelmakers ' annual dinner ( carriages eleven-thirty ) , saying she would actually rather go to the cinema with a girlfriend , and tripped out of the office looking considerably less harassed than when she had arrived . |
| 2 | This meeting has now been arranged for 11th March at which a number of matters that have also been brought up at the various members ' meetings will be queried . |
| 3 | One of the prominent candidates and activists at the Hunan Teachers ' College was eventually arrested and sent for three years to a ‘ re-education through labour ’ camp . |
| 4 | A framed certificate was presented to her at the Good Companions ' meeting last week by chairman Janet Gill . |
| 5 | At Birlik ( Unity ) , a radical nationalist movement , they are forced to camp out at the decrepit Writers ' Union building , where rotting rubbish is piled high in the corridor . |
| 6 | Perhaps this is the Rev. Fred Levison 's ‘ line ’ with his customers at the religious books ' stall ? |
| 7 | Pictured at a presentation to Margaret Browne , who resigned recently from AIB Bank , held at the Irish Bankers ' Club on Tuesday , 16th March 1993 , l. to r. : — Ciaran Ryan , General Secretary , Margaret Browne , Dan Linehan and Andy Heffernan , President |
| 8 | But staff at the Young Persons ' Housing Resource Centre add that there are fewer places available to house these people . |
| 9 | Or , at least , she had done so at the Young Conservatives ' Summer Dance in July . |
| 10 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 11 | Their mothers , lifting the heavy vessels onto their heads to carry them home , clicked at the young ones ' improvidence , as they splashed and squirted spray at one another by thumbing the tap 's mouth — mistakenly , or so they cried out when scolded . |
| 12 | Fencing fans : Photographed at the Young Farmers ' Clubs of Ulster fence erecting competition sponsored by Weston Engineering are members of Annaclone and Magherally Club . |
| 13 | She was educated at the Presbyterian Ladies ' College , Ormond College , and Melbourne University , where she studied philosophy and history ( BA 1903 ) . |
| 14 | It was absent , however , during inter-house matches at the Islamic Boys ' School ( Day Independent Wimbledon ) . |
| 15 | That matter was being discussed at the chief executives ' conference that I attended in Harrogate on Thursday , and it is a matter of great importance to all those working in the ’ next steps ’ agencies . |
| 16 | Tim Mars reports from the front at the European clowns ' convention |
| 17 | The fourth defendant is , or was , an assistant solicitor at the fifth defendants ' London office . |
| 18 | Gorbachev , at the two leaders ' concluding press conference , described the summit as an ‘ event of enormous importance for our bilateral relations ’ and added that one could now speak of a ‘ new phase of cooperation ’ between the two countries . |
| 19 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 20 | 1 am , Bath : As in Richmond and Barnes , there are few Labour voters left in Bath for the Liberal Democrats to squeeze and Chris Patten , clinging to a majority of only 1,412 , hopes Labour 's vote will go up at the Liberal Democrats ' expense . |
| 21 | Labour made a net gain of 39 seats on Thursday , chiefly because its share of the vote increased by four points , from 31 to 35 per cent , but most of this modest gain was at the Liberal Democrats ' expense , not the Tories ' . |
| 22 | It was at the Civil Engineers ' Hall . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me , sir , did you go to the lecture at the Civil Engineers ' Hall that Friday ? ’ |
| 24 | Ongoing counselling offered the opportunity to explore further areas ; regular reviews at the old peoples ' home are part of the necessary monitoring of the situation . |
| 25 | The results were announced at the local centres ' conference , and the presentations of the Trophy to the winner and prizes to the runners-up were made by the President at the conference dinner . |
| 26 | We 'll see you at the next coaches ' meeting . ’ |
| 27 | Encouraging school governors to sample a school meal with the children and inviting the contractor to send a representative to talk about the meals service at the next governors ' meeting will also lead to positive action to improve the system . |
| 28 | Their gloom was deepened by exchanges at the foreign ministers ' meeting , when Nicaragua accused Costa Rica and Honduras of conniving in support of the contras . |
| 29 | Their gloom was deepened by exchanges at the foreign ministers ' meeting , when Nicaragua accused Costa Rica and Honduras of conniving in support of the contras . |
| 30 | The Declaration 's organizational framework committed parties to " co-ordinate and co-operate … by holding meetings at the foreign ministers ' level " . |